LSU AD doesn't hold back when comparing Lane Kiffin and Brian Kelly

LSU athletic director Verge Ausberry didn't mince words in a recent interview with USA TODAY Sports. When discussing what new LSU football head coach Lane Kiffin will bring to the program, Ausberry mentioned Kiffin's ability to connect as a key differentiator between Kiffin, and LSU's previous head coach, Brian Kelly. “It’s going back to the Saban model.

(That means) running the whole program. Then, you have to go do some things with alumni and do things with boosters and do things with fundraising, with NIL. You have to be a part of that," Ausberry said in the interview.

Ausberry went on to say Kiffin will be the type to do those jobs -- Kiffin will meet with donors and connect with the community. “He’s not one who’ll say, ‘OK, I don’t want people to contact me. I don’t want people to touch me.

I don’t want people to be around me. ’ That’s who we had. That’s why we got what we got.